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Trump’s Twin Cities Onslaught Feels a Lot Like the British Tyranny in Colonial Boston

A version of this story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s Substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. Conservatives are fond of invoking the American founding, the framers of the Constitution, and the principles that drove the fight for independence. Those invocations have always been selective and opportunistic, but they’ve grown downright farcical as right-wingers contort themselves into knots […]


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Breaking Down the White House’s Lies and Distortions About Crime in DC

This story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. So let’s get this out of the way first: As I wrote in a previous post, Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism. It has nothing to […]


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